Setting up FRITZ!App Cam

You can use FRITZ!App Cam to easily transform your Android smartphone or tablet into a webcam. FRITZ!App Cam automatically records what happens in front of the camera and makes it available on a web page. You can then easily call it up in a web browser in the home network or over the Internet.

1 Preparations

Setting up a MyFRITZ! account and configuring it in the FRITZ!Box

Configuring the FRITZ!Box to allow applications to access it

In the factory settings, the FRITZ!Box is configured to allow applications to access it. If you changed the FRITZ!Box's settings, configure it so that it will once again allow applications to access it:

3 Installing FRITZ!App Cam

Download FRITZ!App Cam from the Google Play Store and install the app on your smartphone or tablet.

Start FRITZ!App Cam.

If you want to protect access to the camera image from the Internet with a password, enable password protection and enter a password of your choice in the "password" field.

Define whether "HTTP" (standard) or "HTTPS" should be used to access the camera images.

If you want to use a port other than 8080 (standard) to access the camera image, enter the number of the port to be used for the connection in the "Port" field.

Enter the name and password of a FRITZ!Box user who is authorized to access the FRITZ!Box user interface ("FRITZ!Box settings").

Note:You can edit the access rights of FRITZ!Box users in the FRITZ!Box user interface under "System > FRITZ!Box Users".

If there are several FRITZ!Boxes in the home network, FRITZ!App Cam asks you to select a FRITZ!Box. In this case, select the FRITZ!Box that establishes the Internet connection; it must also be the one you configured MyFRITZ! in.

Tap the "OK" button to complete the configuration.

When you start FRITZ!App Cam, the app displays the current camera image. Now you can also view it over the Internet. You can use the "Share" function in the app to send the MyFRITZ! Access link for FRITZ!App Cam to your friends or family.

Note:With some Android devices, you can also use camera functions such as lighting and focus with FRITZ!App Cam.

4 Saving images to FRITZ!NAS

The following steps are only necessary if you would like to save images from FRITZ!App Cam to a USB storage device connected to the FRITZ!Box:

Setting up FRITZ!Box users

So that FRITZ!App Cam can save images to a USB storage device connected to the FRITZ!Box, set up a user for FRITZ!App Cam in the FRITZ!Box that is allowed to access FRITZ!NAS: